| Experience | Expertise | Innovative | Reliable | Research |
Glades Crop Care is the first company to develop and publish a professional scouting program for Carinata
Additionally, Glades Crop Care was the first to discover:
| Asian Bean Thrips: First Continental find (in beans: Florida) |
| Thrips palmi: First Caribbean find (in peppers & tomato blooms: Puerto Rico) |
| Thrips palmi: First Continental find (on Spanish Needles [Bidens Pilosa]: Florida) |
| Thrips palmi: New County record (in cucumbers: Collier County, Florida) |
| Groundnut Ringspot Virus: First U.S. find (in peppers: Florida) |
| Tomato Chlorotic Spot Virus: First U.S. find (in tomatoes: Florida) |
| Tar Spot Disease: First Florida find (in sweet corn: Palm Beach County, Florida) |
| Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus resistant breaking strain: First U.S. find (in tomatoes: California) |
| Tomato Mottle Virus: First U.S. find (in tomatoes: Florida) |
| Two additional weed host reservoirs for TCSV (Puerto Rico) |
| Alternaria petroselini: First U.S. find (in parsley: Palm Beach County, Florida) |
| Organothrips indicus (thrips): on cat tail, first records for Florida and the Western Hemisphere |
| Organothrips indicus (thrips): on water hyacinth, first record for Florida and the Western Hemisphere |
| Ballus cinctipes (a salticid): New County record (Indian River County, Florida) |
| Lebbeck Mealybug (in Florida) |
| Tar Spot: First Florida find (in sweet corn: in Florida) |
| BRNV on Parthenium |
| Ilarvirus (tobacco streak) on Homestead tomatoes |
| HLB in Martin County |
| Psyllids in a commercial grove in Palm Beach |
GCC was instrumental to the Food Safety Initiative project funded by the Florida Fruit and Vegetable Association with the development of a Food Safety Toolkit. We introduced over 300 farming entities to the principals of food safety—at no charge to the farming community!